Tokyo and tech through the eyes of a split pea

Welcome, Allan Wan!

I hope that title doesn’t cripple your quest for #1 :)  Friend and entrepreneur-at-heart Allan Wan is getting back in the game with a weblog redesign and host of new projects to mark his territory on this vast web we weave daily.  His early start for 10 month old daughter Ima should make her a [...]

MiiStation in the Wall Street Journal

You may have already heard that one of our projects, MiiStation (where we offer to make a Mii avatar on Nintendo’s Wii console), was recently featured in the Wall Street Journal.  The article discusses businesses sprouting up around the Mii concept and brought in a wave of orders this weekend, helping us make one particularly [...]

Nobi on the ‘net

Friend and freelance journalist Nobi Hayashi is interviewed on O’Reilly’s MacDevCenter.  I did not know that past WWDC gatherings used to have sessions for developers on market entry techniques - valuable information for a significant and difficult market such as Japan’s!  Apple should definitely consider re-introducing a few of these sessions.  The Aozora bank’s adoption [...]

How the world shapes up

I find these visualizations of nation sizes based on different factors quite fascinating.  (This is more an anchor for my future reference).  Here’s one comparing housing prices:

It would be interesting to see actual numbers on the land-mass differences between real and visual.
UPDATE:  I’m getting all this through Daring Fireball, who posted an update on the [...]

My New Toy

…is the recently released Hitachi W51H.  My new-phone use is adopting a half-life pattern - I started with a Sony/Ericsson phone without a camera almost 5 years ago and which lasted me about 3 years, moved on to a Premini II, and now only a year later I’ve got a new phone.  The other big [...]

Inspiration from Stanford’s entrepreneurship video library

I’ve been on a video binge watching insightful and inspirational talks by some of the VC and entrepreneurship community’s leaders, all given at Stanford over the past 3-4 years. Many of these were suggested by my friend Greg, who is himself an angel investor in some very promising ventures.
I’m posting these here as both [...]